Smoothing-iron.



Nirnn STATES JOI-IN M. COSLER, OF KOKOMO, INDIANA.

SMOOTHING-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 671,105, dated April 2,1901.

Application led September 27, 1900. Serial No. 31,829. (No model.) n

To all rah/071e t may concern,.-

Beit known that I, JOHN M. COSLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kokomo, in the county of Howard and State of Indiana, haveinvented a new and valuable Improvement in Smoothing and Pressing Ironsfor Tailors and Laundry Use, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in smoothing-irons of that classadapted for pressing or ironing the cloth under and around the buttonsof a garment.

The invention consists in the matter hereinafter described, and pointedout in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a view in side elevation of asmoothing-iron embodying my invention. elevation of the same. Fig. 3 isa plan view of the same. Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on line 4 4.of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the iron.

As shown in said drawings, @indicates the handle of the iron, and b thebody thereof. In the body of the iron is a recess d, extending throughthe top surface thereof downwardly nearly to its bottom or lower surfaceand opening through one end of the iron. In the bottom of this recess isa narrow slot c, which opens through the said bottom surface of theiron, the metal at either side of the said slot being made relativelythin. The recess d and slot c extend from one end of the iron only apart of the length of the same, so that the iron has a solid portion atone end, from which solid portion the parts at either side of the recessand slot project in the form of arms or prongs.

The iron made as described is intended for pressing the cloth ofgarments around or under buttons, the button in the act of pressing thecloth entering the recess d, while the neck of the button or the threadconnecting it with the cloth enters the slot c.

It has been proposed heretofore to construct a smoothing-iron with anundercut slot eX- Fig. 2 is an end tending from end to end of the bottomsur face thereof. .The advantage of an iron having a recess extendingthrough the body of the iron and opening through the top surface thereofis that the slot cin such an iron is visible to the operator, who maylook downward thereon through the recess d, so that the course of theiron in engaging and While it is engaged with the buttons may be observed and the iron readily and easily guided. Moreover, in the ironmade" as herein shown the solid end portion having a wide or continuousbottom surface is better adapted than is an iron having a slot throughout its length to permit the iron to move or slide smoothly sidewise inordinary ironing, it being obvious that the edges of a longitudinal slotextending the entire length of the iron might and in many cases wouldinterfere with such sidewise sliding of the iron. The said recess dbeing open at its top to the air also affords access of air to thebutton and prevents the same being scorched by extreme heat. Moreover,the operator can not only see the. buttons, so that he can readily turnthe iron either lengthwise or crosswise about a button, but the smoothlower surface of the solid end of the iron enables the latter to be moreeasily turned or revolved about the button in smoothing the clothbeneath it.

I claim as my invention- A smoothing-iron provided with a recess openingthrough the top of the same and with a slot narrower than the saidrecess opening from the same through the bottom surface of the iron;said recess and slot being open at one end of the iron for the receptionof a button or the like and extending through only a part of the lengthof the iron.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN M. COSLER.

Witnesses:

ELvvooD I-IAYNEs, L. E. COLLIER.

